This isn’t super recent, but maybe in the last couple of years or so, I finally realised that the reason Power Rangers felt so strange and disjointed between the stuff at school and the actual fighting is because it actually is disjointed, the costume stuff was all footage from Japanese shows, cut into a newly created American storyline.

Power Rangers turned 25 last month, but the series it owes its existence to—Toei’s tokustatsu icon Super Sentai—has been around since 1975. Ever wondered what it took to turn Spandex-clad Japanese heroes into all-American Power Rangers? Here’s a...

"Ah! vous dirai-je, maman" (French: [a vu diʁeʒ(ə) mamɑ̃]) is a popular children's song in France, which has had numerous lyrics on different themes since its composition in the 18th century. This song was popularized in Twelve Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
According to Henri-Irénée Marrou, the origin of the melody is an anonymous pastoral song dating from 1740, with children's lyrics added relatively recently. The melody was first published in 1761. In 1774...

I don’t like them much, but I do have fond memories of seeing them headline at some metal festival and a mate of mine belting out the words ‘SAND PATROL’ to Sad But True, which caused loads of people to turn around and stare at him. Turns out he thought those were the actual lyrics, despite the title of the song.
For the tears of laughter that caused at the time, I’m going 2/5